Psychotherapy techniques can be broadly grouped into change and acceptance strategies. Change strategies are exactly what they sound like: techniques for changing how a person feels, thinks, or ...

Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its goal is to help people process traumatic events while challenging and changing ...

Like all variants of cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a short-term, structured form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way someone thinks ...

As if having cancer wasn’t hard enough, up to 50% of patients and survivors also suffer from insomnia or other sleep disturbances, says Eugenie Spiguel, an advanced practice provider at Memorial Sloan ...

I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across a sunny quad, wearing an actual tweed jacket ...

A clinical trial finds that integrative cognitive behavioral therapy (PG-CBT) is more effective than present-centered therapy (PCT) in reducing grief severity and comorbid symptoms after treatment, ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure and response prevention (ERP) are common therapies for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). They may help a person identify and challenge obsessive ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...

A new study published in Psychological Medicine has found that a specific type of cognitive training can reduce biological ...

Dr. Aaron Beck died yesterday at age 100. He revolutionized the field of psychotherapy by introducing cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, which became more widely used than Freudian analysis. To ...